The Sheboygan Turners received top honors in the cultural competition at the American Turners 54th National Festival held in Aurora, Ill.

The categories were in all forms of arts, handicrafts, photography, needlework, writing and collections.

Younger the nine competitors were: Eliyanna Martinez, first place and Best of Age Group watercolor “three owls,” first place plaster painted stepping stones, second plaster painted Sun, first plaster painted wall hanging, first painting “Vase with Flowers,” first painting “Lily Pads”; Zane de Shazo, first lighted wood Christmas Tree; Jaycee Roethel, second lithograph “Horse Head.”